Cranberry food product and process of preparing the same.



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U ITED STATESPATENT orricn.

minis! WILLIAM cooKE, or NEW YORK, N. Y., AssxGNon; BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS,

TO THE COKEL COMPANY, CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

I smasher roon raonuor AND rnocnss orranrAnme THE SAME.

To whom it may concern: 7

a Be itlknown that I, ERNEST lV. CooKn, a

. citizen of theUnit-ed States, residing at New I York, in the countyand State of New York,

Fh'ave invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Cranberry FoodProducts and'Processes of Preparing the Same; and

qI do (declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothersskilled in the art to which-it appertains to make and use thesame. "9

- This invention relates tocranbe'rry food I products and processes ofpreparing the sam'e';and it comprlses as a new article of manufacture acranberry food product embracing transversely sllced, dried, seedlessslices of cranberries, having the natural celberries; all as more fullyhereinafter set forth and as claimed.

a!) Desiccated seedless cranberries are desirable. formany reasons, butheretofore no article hasbeen produced, so far as I am aware, in theprior art which needed only the addition of water to produce stewedcranberries,cranberry jam. jelly, etc., of the same character as thatwhich can be prepared from the fresh fruit. Some sort of comminution isdesirable for desiccation since in the natural fruit the cells areprotected by the skin of such fruit and the moisture cannot be removed.Ifthe cranberry be crushed, as it has sometimes been proposed, as apreliminary to desiccation, the seeds, which in their natural conditionare contained in special seed vessels, are

. crushedinto the pulp and it is substantially impossible to separatethem therefrom after- Ward. Moreover, 1n so crushing the cran-=berry,-'the natural cellular structure of the xplant is destroyed andit is substantially 1mpossibly to dry out throughly. perfectly l anduniforinly the moisture from the crushed material. In the crushing thenatural ves- :gsels are pulped. Dried, crushed cranberries always give astickyconglomerate. However Specification of Letters Patent. PatentedFeb, 21, 1911, 'i Application filed January 11, 1905. Serial No.240,667.

thin such cranberries be spread, some portion of the material isinaccessible to the action of air in desiccation and remainsmore or lessmoist unless temperatures be carried very high. Furthermore, the juicesare, so to speak, smeared over'the outside of the crushed cell walls.If, on the other hand, the .cranberries be sliced prior to desiccationthis smearing of the juices does not occur.- 'And since substantiallyall ofthe cells are unruptured, only those along the line of sectionbeing cut, the fruit in the thin slices may be dried as an assemblageof. cells, each cell inclosing its juices. If the. material be dried atlow temperatures and under the proper conditions the final result is aslice of cranberry which is substantially like the original fruitsave'in that it is desiccated. The material loses practically nothingbut waterin this drying operation and the uices and other constituentsare not changed, so that upon the addition of water, jams, etc. can beobtained like those which may be produced from the original cranberry.In slicing a further advantageous result is obtained in that the seedsmay be exposed and may be removed byagitation.

In the preferred embodimen't'of this invention the cranberries are firstdivided into comparatively thin slices. The slicing is besttransverseto'or at least across the natural axes of the fruit. Afterthus slicing,

the cut slices may be agitated so as to remove all or a greater part ofthe exposed seeds. T his may be done in various ways, such as by placingthe slices in water which kept agitated by suitable means, or by the useof a shukingsieve or screen, or by the combination()fl'JOlLlll'l'lQtllOClS. I prefer to remove the seeds in this operationby what maybe termed a winnowin'g action, that is to say, by placingthem "upon a shaking prior application .for patent, filed" January .29,190st, Serial No. 191,538, but the particular form of dehydratingapparatus used is not of the essence of my present invention. The seedsmay be removed prlor'rtothe i moved. The seeds are expose removed fromthe dehydration as stated,"or may be removed during the dehydratiofnjitself. Or the seeds maybe removed during both operations," The seeds maalso be conveniently p ried, slicesflremaining after the dehydration, orif all the seeds have not been-removed during" the prior be so reduringthe slieing operation and it .18 immaterial at which subsequent stagethey are removed.

operations, the remainder-me? It is convenient, however, after theslicing operation exposing the seeds, toremove at least the bulk ofsuch-seeds during thedrying or desiccatingoperation as by. passing acurrent of dry. air over them under such conditions as to'giveawinnowing action;

The dry product so'obtained'consists of desiccated transverse slices ofcranberry 'freed from seed but otherwise like the original cranberry and.upon the addition .of water, giving products like those yielded by theoriginal cranberry,;save for the absence of seed. For the most part, thecells in the material are unruptured and still inclose their originalcontents.

What I claim is 1. The process of producing a dehydrated seedlesscranberry foodproduct, which'conwhileipassing a current of air'over thesame to remove a portion of the seeds snbv eeting the slices to thedehydrating action of dry air, and finallyagitating them again .toremove the remainin seeds.

3. The process of pro' ucing a dehydrated seedless cranberry foodproduct, which come prises cutting cranberries across their .axes

so as to expose the seeds, and dehydratingthe cut cranberries andagitating them to separate the seeds therefrom.

4. The process of producing a dehydrated seedless cranberry foodproduct,which comprises cutting cranberries transversely of their axes to exposetheseeds, agitating the cut cranberries to remove the seeds, and

then dehydratingthe cut cranberries.-

5. The process of producing a. dehydrated seedless cranberry foodproduct, which consists in cutting the cranberries across their axes'toexpose the seeds, and agitating the cut cranberries and subjectingthemto the action of dry air to dehydrateuthem and rid them of theirseeds. i

6. Asanew arti le of desiccated and seedless cranberries, the

berries, upon" moistening giving' a material like fresh cranberries-savefor-the absence of seeds. j

p In testimony whereof, I atfix my ture, in presence of two wltnesses,

ERNEST WILLIAM 'COOKE. Witnesses:

H- H. BROCKWAY, JOHN S. POTTER.

manufacture, sliced,

"line of slicing being transverse to the fruit y axis and the ma or partof natural; cells 1n sald cranberries beinggun'broken, sa d cran Signw

